What Up, Craiglist People?

Filed under:It's My Life,Jerks — posted by Anwyn on October 24, 2007 @ 9:23 pm

Why is craigslist populated by more than its share of jerks and idiots?

I’m trying to sell three cast iron skillets. A woman emails about one of the skillets, says she wants to come over tomorrow (yesterday) and get it … unless, of course, where I live is too far from where she is. Is it? she wants to know. Um. You can use craigslist but not Mapquest? I tell her roughly where I am. She says she wants to come get the skillet. Fine. I give her directions and all. She doesn’t show. She emails to say she got hung up at work and couldn’t email me in a timely manner. Fine. She emails again to say she deleted the email with my directions. . o O (???) Fine. I email them to her again. She’ll come over tomorrow (today).

She doesn’t show. Again. This time no email.

I hope she’s just too darned emabarrassed to email since she left me hanging yet again. But somehow, I doubt it.

Not the first time for this kind of thing with craigslist. Not the first time.

5 comments »

  1. Sometimes it’s just easier to donate the things to Goodwill.

    I had a similar experience but what I had was free and very difficult to move. (A large round bale of non-horse-quality hay.) A guy with goats wanted it. His truck supposedly broke down on the way to get it.

    It’s still here. I guess it will rot in my yard. At least you can wallop an intruder with your cast-iron skillets. (like your rude buyer….)

    Comment by Anne — October 25, 2007 @ 7:34 am

  2. I donate all old clothes and miscellaneous knicknacks to Goodwill. These skillets in particular, I had gone overboard with this summer and bought more skillets than I need or can use, and so hated to give up on recouping my money right away. Seems I may have to write it off, though.

    Comment by Anwyn — October 25, 2007 @ 1:05 pm

  3. I’d say sell them on e-bay except they sound heavy (shipping issue). Every now and then I’ll do a major sweep through the house and get motivated enough to sell things on e-bay. It’s funny what sells and what doesn’t. If you’re in the right mood, it can be fun. The problem is that I then start to stockpile boxes and shipping things for the next e-bay sale, and I end up under more junk than before.

    I have a neighbor who’s had a lot of luck with the “under $100” section of the classifieds. If your paper has one of those, it might work better than Craigslist.

    Have you ever looked at the personals on Craigslist? Stay married!

    Comment by Anne — October 25, 2007 @ 4:46 pm

  4. You could always bring them with you next Saturday and auction them off at McMennamins. You could even autograph it, it would be kinda like Jay Leno’s motorcycles!

    Comment by T.Paine — October 25, 2007 @ 7:23 pm

  5. I’ve been trying to sell some vehicles on there. Although I plainly state “no out of state inquiries, no cashier’s checks, personal checks nor money orders” I still get all that. A guy called me, told me he wanted it, I warned him I wanted no checks, I’d follow him to his bank, cash it, then we could sign over the title when cash was in hand, he says ok, then shows up with a friggin’ two week lead-time POST DATED CHECK!

    He gives me a sob story and I said, ok then, come back in 2 weeks. Never heard from him again, of course. And I get all these out of state people wanting to pay me huge amounts to ship it to them then keep the change. Like some guy in Michigan wants to buy my wrecked, early ’90’s SUV and have it shipped to him. Sure.

    I’ll sell it eventually but jeez, the scammers on craigslist. The gullible or trusting would be like lambs to the slaughter.

    Comment by docweasel — October 25, 2007 @ 7:53 pm

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